ix, 224 pages ; 23 cm

"Examining how we interpret Welshness today, this volume brings together fourteen essays that examine the range of representations of Welsh mythology, folklore, and ritual in popular culture. Together, these interdisciplinary essays explore the ways that Welsh motifs have proliferated in this age of cultural cross-pollination, spreading worldwide the myths of one small British nation"--Provided by publisher

Includes bibliographical references (pages 213-218) and index

Introduction: re-imagining Wales / Audrey Becker and Kristin Noone -- Celtic Studies and Modern Fantasy / C.W. Sullivan III -- "The Rough, Savage Strength of Earth": Evangeline Walton's Human Heroes and Mythic Spaces / Kristin Noone -- Branwen's Shame: Voicing the Silent Feminine in Evangeline Walton's The Children of Llyr / Nicole A. Thomas -- Disavowing Maternity in Evangeline Walton's The Virgin and the Swine: Fantasy Meets the Social Protest Fiction of the 1930s / Deborah Hooker -- "An Age-Old Memory": Arthur Machen's Celtic Redaction of the Welsh Revival in The Great Return / Geoffrey Reiter -- Magical Goods, "Orphaned" Exchanges, Punishment, and Power in the Fourth Branch of the Mabinogi / Susana Brower -- The Hand at the Window: Twm Sin Cati, the Welsh Colonial trickster / Jonathan Evans and Stephen Knight -- An Irregular Union: Exploring the Welsh Connection to a Popular African-American Wedding Ritual / Tyler D. Parry -- Constructing Myth in Music: Heather Dale, King Arthur, and "Culhwch and Olwen" / Megan MacAlystre -- Torchwood's "Spooky-Do's": A Popular Culture Perspective on Celtic Mythology / Lynnette R. Porter -- Everyday Magic: Howl's Moving Castle and Fantasy as Sociopolitical Commentary / Carolynn E. Wilcox -- Loosely Based: The Problems of Adaptation in Disney's The Black Cauldron / Jeff Hicks -- We're Not in Cymru Anymore: What Is Really Happening in the Online Mabinogi / Clay Kinchen Smith -- Temporality, Teleology, and the Mabinogi in the Twenty-First Century / Audrey Becker

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